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Ἔτι δὲ ὑπολαβὼν ὁ κύριος εἶπεν τῷ Ἰὼβ ἐκ τοῦ νέφους

Μή, ἀλλὰ ζῶσαι ὥσπερ ἀνὴρ τὴν ὀσφύν σου.

ἐρωτήσω δέ σε, σὺ δέ μοι ἀπόκριναι·

μὴ ἀποποιοῦ μου τὸ κρίμα.

οἴει δέ με ἄλλως σοι κεχρηματικέναι ἡ ἵνα ἀναφανῇς δίκαιος

ἣ βραχίων σοί ἐστιν κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου,

ἢ φωνῇ κατʼ αὐτοῦ βροντᾶς;

ἀνάλαβε δὴ ὕψος καὶ δύναμιν.

δόξαν δὲ καὶ τιμὴν ἀμφίεσαι.

ἀπόστειλον δὲ ἀγγέλους ὀργῇ.

πᾶν δὲ ὑβριστὴν ταπείνωσον,

ὑπερήφανον δὲ σβέσον·

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σῆψον δὲ ἀσεβεῖς παραχρῆμα.

κρύψον δὲ εἰς γῆν ὁμοθυμαδόν,

τὰ δὲ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ἀτιμίας ἔμπλησον·

ὁμολογήσω ὅτι δύναται ἡ δεξιά σου σῶ

ἀλλὰ δὴ ἰδοὺ δὴ θηρία παρὰ σοί, χόρτον ἴσα βουσὶν

ἐσθίουσιν.

ἰδοὸ δὴ ἰσχὺς αὐτοῦ ἐπʼ ὀσφύι.

ἡ δὲ δύναμις ἐπʼ ὀμφαλοῦ γαστρός·

ἔστησεν οὐρὰν ὡς κυπάρισσον,

τὰ δὲ νεῦρα αὐτοῦ συμπέπλεκται·

αἱ πλευραὶ αὐτοῦ πλευραὶ χάλκειαι,

ἡ δὲ ῥάχις αὐτοῦ σίδηρος χυτός.

τοῦτ᾿ ἔστιν ἀρχὴ πλάσματος Κυρίου, πεποιημένον ἐνκαταπαίζεσθαι

ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ.

ἐπελθὰλν δὲ ἐπʼ ὄρος ἀκρότομον ἐποίησεν χαρμονὴν τετρά-

ποσιν ἐν τῷ ταρτάρῳ·

ὑπὸ παντοδαπὰ δένδρα κοιμᾶται.

§παρὰ πάπυρον καὶ κάλαμον καὶ βούτομον·

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σκιάζονται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ δένδρα μεγάλα σὺν ῥαδάμνοις. καὶ

κλῶνες ἀγροῦ.

ἐὰν γένηται πλήμμυρα. οὐ μὴ ασθηθῆ,

πέποιθευ ὅτι προσκρούσει ὁ Ἰορδάνης εἰς τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ·

ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ αὐτοῦ δέξεται αὐτόν

ἐνσκολιευόμενος τρήσει ῤῖνα;

ἄξεις δὲ δράκοντα ἐν ἀγκίστοῳ.

περιθήσεις δὲ φορβεάν περὶ ῥἴνα αὐτοῦ;

εἰ δήσεις κρίκον ἐν τῷ μυκτῆρι αὐτοῦ,

ψελίῳ δὲ τρυπήσεις τὸ χεῖλος αὐτοῦς

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λαλήσει δέ σοι δεήσει, ἱκετηρίᾳ μαλακῶς

θήσεται διαθήκην μετὰ σοῦ;

λήμψῃ δὲ αὐτὸν δοῦλον αἰώνιον;

παίξῃ δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ὀρνέῳ, ἢ δήσεις αὐτὸν ὥσπερ

στρουθίον παιδίῳς

ἐνσιτοῦνται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔθνη,

μεριτεύονται δὲ αὐτὸν Φοινίκων ἔθνη;

χῆν δὲ πλωτὸν συνελθὸν οὐ μὴ ἐνέγκαοσιν βύρσαν μίαν

οὐρᾶς αὐτοῦ,

καὶ ἐν πλοίοις ἀλιέαων κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ.

ἐπιθήσει δὲ αὐτῷ χείρα, μνησθεὶς πόλεμον τὸν γινόμενον ἐν

σώματι αὐτοῦ.

Job. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.. United States. 2017.

Funding provided by Harvard Library Arcadia Fund.

Current edition First1KGreek

Ἰώβ (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.)

Editions (1)

Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 40.1 focus

Ὡς φάτ' ἀπηλεγέως ἱερὴ ἲς Ἀθανάτοιο,

Οὐδ' ἐπέων ἔτι λῆξε, πάλιν δέ τε μῦθον ἔειπεν,

Ἄψ τ' ἀπαμείβετ' Ἴωβον, ὁμοκλήσας τε προσήυδα,

Τίς νύ κε τολμήσειε Θεῷ, ἐριδαινέμεν ἄντην,

Μῆτίν δ' οἱ ὑποθεῖναι, ἐπιφροσύνην τε νόοιο;

Τριπλῇ τετραπλῇ τ' ἀποτίσει, ὅς μιν ἐλέγξαι

Τλαίη· ἀργαλέῳ γὰρ Ὀλύμπιος ἀντιφέρεσθαι.

Δυστήνων δέ τε παῖδες ἐμῷ μύθῳ ἀντόωσιν.

Ὡς φάτο· ῥίγησεν δὲ πολύτλας δῖος Ἴωβος,

Διὼ δ' ἀκέων ἔστηκε, δέος δέ μιν αἰνὸν ἵκανεν.

Ὀψὲ δέ μιν προσέφη, θεοπειθέα δ' ἔννεπε μῦθον·

Ὦ μοι ἐγὼ δειλὸς, καὶ ἐλέγξιστος ζωόντων·

Ἦ ῥα κατ' Ἀθανάτου στόμα νήπιον αὐτὸς ἀνοίξω;

Οὐκ ἔστ', οὐδὲ ἔοικε τεῖν, Πάτερ, ἀντίον εἰπεῖν·

Τῷνεκ' ἐγὼν ἐθέλω ἐπὶ μάστακα χεῖρα πιέζειν.

Ἦ μὲν ἅπαξ ἐφάμην, καὶ δεύτερον αὖθις ἔειπον·

Ἀλλά μοι οὐκέτι θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἐτόλμα

Ἀντίον εἰπέμεναι τρίτατον πάλιν, ἀλλά μ' ἄνωγε

Σιγῇ ἀτρέμας ἧσθαι, ἐπεὶ πολὺ λώϊον ὕτω.

Τὸν δ' ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη Θεὸς ἠδέϊ φωνῇ

Λαίλαπος ἐκ μέσσης, τρέμε δ' οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ,

Σείσατο δ' εἰνὶ θρόνῳ, ἐλέλιξε δὲ μακρὸν ὄλυμπον.

Ὦ πέπον, ἀνὴρ ἴσθι, περὶ ζώνῃσι βαλὲ ἰξῦϊ,

Θάρσει, μηδέ τι πάγχυ μετ' φρεσὶ δείδιθι λίην,

Εἰπέ μοι εἰρομένῳ νημερτέα, μηδ' ἐπικεύσῃς.

Δαιμόνι', ἦ ῥά νύ μοι ἀνεμώλια κείματα θήσεις;

Ἀλλὰ μάλ' ἔμπως ὀξὺν ἐμὸν νόον ἠδὲ μενοινὴν

Οὔτε παρεξελθεῖν δειλὸν βροτὸν, ὔθ' ἁλιῶσαι.

Ἦ σε δικαιώσεις αὐτὸν κατ' ἐμεῖο δικάζων;

Ἦ ῥά τοι, ὥς τε Θεῷ, μέγας ἐκτετάνυστο βραχίων;

Ὅς τε καὶ ἀμπεπαλὼν περὶ φλογόεντα κεραυνόν;

Δεινὸν δ' ἐβρόντησας ἀπ' αἰθέρος, ἠΰτ' ἐκεῖνος,

Φωνῇ ἐριγδύπῳ; στεροπὴν δ' ἅμα χερὶ τίναξας;

Ἀλλ' ἄγε νῦν, εἴ μοι δύνασαι σθένος ἰσοφαρίζειν,

Λάμπε δ' ἀγλαΐῃς θεῖον ἐπειμένος ἀλκήν,

Κάλλεϊ καὶ χάρισι στίλβων καὶ μαρμαρυγῇσι,

Μειδιόων βλοσυροῖσι προσώπασιν, ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦδος

Βάλλεο, θεσπεσίῳ περὶ δ' ἕννυσο φέγγος ὀπωπῇ.

Μῆνιν τε, δριμύν τε χόλον, νέμεσίν τε, καὶ ἄττην

Κίδναθι πᾶσαν ἐπ' αἶαν· ὅπου τ' ἴδες ἄνδρας ἀγανούς,

Ῥίπτε, καὶ ἔνθα μάλιστα σὸν ἔκδικον ὄμμα τίταινε·

Βάλλε δ' ὑπόδρα ἰδών, ἵν' ἔραζε πέσωσιν ἕκαστος,

Ἄνδρας ὑπερφιάλους καὶ ἀγλώσσους, οἵτινές εἰσιν·

Ἐξ ἑδέων συφέλιξον ἀλιτρούς, ὄφρα καὶ αὐτοὶ

Πρηνέες ἐν κονίῃσιν ὀδὰξ λαζοίατο γαῖαν.

Λὰξ ἐν στήθεσι βαῖνε, ποδῶν δ' ὑπένερθε κονίῃ

Κρύψον ὁμοῦ κακὰ φῦλα βροτῶν ὑπερωρεόντων·

Δήσας κακκεφαλῆς, τοὺς δὲ σκότος ὄσσε καλύψαι.

Τόφρα δ' ἐγὼ πρόφρων ὑποείξομαι, οὐδ' ἀνανεύσω,

Ὡς σέο δεξιτερή τοι ὑπέρτερον εὖχος ὄρεξεν.

Ἀλλ' ἴδε νῦν ἐλέφαντα πελώριον, ὀβριμόγυιον,

Ἦ μάλα θαῦμ' ἐτέτυκτο πελώριον, οὐδὲ ἔῳκει

Θηρί γ' ὀρεσκῴῳ, ἀλλὰ ῥίῳ ὑλήεντι

Ὑψηλῶν ὀρέων, ἢ καὶ νέφεϊ σκιόεντι.

Τὸν δ' ἅμα σοι ποίησ', ἵν' ἀρούρης καρπὸν ἔδοιτο.

Οὐδὲ γάρ ἐσθ' ἅρπαξ ἐνὶ θήρεσιν, οὐδέ τι σίντης,

Τοῖός περ καὶ τόσσος ἐὼν δέμας, ἀλλὰ μάλ' αἰεὶ

Βόσκετ' ἐν χλοερῇσι πολυκτήμοισί τε βήσῃς,

Ἠΰτε βοῦς ἀγελαῖος ἐν ἀσφοδελῷ λειμῶνι.

Ἄσχετός οἱ λαγόνεσσι βίη καὶ κάρτος ὀπηδεῖ,

Νειάτῳ ἐν κενεῶνι καὶ ὀμφαλῷ ἔπλετο κίκυς.

Οὐρὴ δὴ ὡς κέδρος, τὴν δ' ἆρ μάλα ῥίμφα δίνησεν·

Ὄρχιες ἁρμονίῃσιν ἐϋπλέκτοισι δέδεντο,

Νεύροισίν τ' ἐλίκεσσι καὶ ἴνεσιν ἐσφήκωνται.

Χαλκῷ μὲν χρό' ἔοικε, δέμας δ' αἴθωνι σιδήρῳ,

Ἄμφια καὶ γυῖα στιβαροῖς ὀστέοισιν ἀρήρει,

Ὡς γόμφοις χαλκέοισι, σιδηρείοισί τε μοχλοῖς.

Ἐν δ' ἔργοισι Θεοῖο μάλ' ἔξοχος εὔχεται εἶναι,

Θηρσί τ' ἐν ἀγροτέροις μέγα φέρτατος· ὅς ῥά οἱ αὐτὸν

Ἔπλασεν, ὡς ἄορι, μεγάλῃ ὡπλίσσατο ῥινὶ,

Στρεπτῇ τε, σκολιῇ τε· προβοσκίδα μιν καλέεσκον.

Ἀλλ' οὐκ ὠμηστὴς, οὔτ' ἄγριος, οὔτε δαφοινὸς,

Οὔρεα δ' οἱ βοτάνην ἄλις ὤπασεν, ἔνθά τε θῆρες

Πάντες ἅμα σκαίρουσιν ἐναντίοι, οὐδέ τις αὐτῷ

Ταρβεῖ, οὐδὲ φοβεῖται, ἐπεί κεν ἴδῃ ἐλέφαντα.

Δένδρεα ὑψικόμους σκέπας οἱ πέλε, δάσκιoς ὕλη,

Ἀμ δόνακας καὶ ἕλος κεῖται πυκινῇ ἐνὶ λόχμῃ

Κρύβδην, ἠδέ τ' ἐν εἰαμενῇ ἕλεος μεγάλοιο·

Πὰρ ποταμὸν κελάδοντα, περὶ ῥοδανὸν δονακῆα,

Ἔνθά μιν ἀμφιέπουσι βαθύσκια δένδρεα μακρὰ,

Αἴγειροι πτελέαι τε καὶ ἰτέαι ὠλεσίκαρποι,

Αἳ περὶ καλὰ ῥέεθρα ἅλις ποταμοῖο φύονται.

Πολλάκις ἐξέπιεν ποταμὸς ἀπλήστῳ ῥοφήσας,

Καὶ ῥόον ἐξαλάπαξεν, Ἰορδάνου αἰπὰ ῥέεθρα

Στεῦται ῥεῖα μάλα στιβαρῇς γένυεσσι λαφύξειν.

Τοῦτον τίς κε λίνοισιν ἐϋπλέκτοισι δαμάσσαι,

Ζωγρήσαι τ' ἀναφανδὰ, διατορώ τε ῥῖνα τερέσαι;

Ἄλλο δέ τοι ἐρέω τέρας ἄγριον, ἱερὸν ἰχθυῦν,

Ὄβριμον εἰνάλιον κῆτος, μέγα θαῦμα θαλάσσης·

(Οὐ γὰρ γαῖα μόνη τέρατα τρέφει, ἀλλὰ θάλασσα)

Translations (3)

Job Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 40 focus

Moreover Yahweh answered Job,

Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.

Then Job answered Yahweh,

Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

Pour forth the fury of your anger. Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

Then I will also admit to you That your own right hand can save you.

See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

Look now, his strength is in his loins, His force is in the muscles of his belly.

He moves his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the animals of the field do play.

He lies under the lotus trees, In the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?

English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) Experimental (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.) — 40.1 focus

[1] So spoke the holy might of the Immortal unrelentingly; nor did he cease from words any longer, but again he spoke a speech, and again he answered Job, and rebuked him and addressed him: 'Who now would dare to strive against God face to face, and to lay before him counsel and understanding of mind?'

[2] He will repay threefold and fourfold, whoever would dare to reprove him. For it is grievous to contend against the Olympian. And the children of the wretched will meet my word.

[3] So he spoke. But glorious much-enduring Job shuddered, and stood silent before God, and a dread terrible fear came upon him. And at last he addressed him, and spoke a God-persuaded word:

[4] Woe is me, wretched, and the most refutable of the living! Shall I myself open my foolish mouth against the Immortal? It is not possible, nor is it fitting for you, Father, to speak in reply; Therefore I wish to press my hand upon my mouth.

[5] Truly I spoke once, and a second time again I spoke; But no longer did my spirit in my breast dare to speak a second time in reply, but it urged me to sit in silence, still, since it is far better so.

[6] Then God, answering him, spoke with a sweet voice out of the midst of the whirlwind; broad heaven trembled beneath him, he shook upon his throne, and he made great Olympus quake.

[7] O good sir, be a man; gird your loins about your waist; take courage, and do not be at all greatly afraid in your heart; tell me truly when I ask, and do not conceal it.

[8] O sir, will you really now make my counsels vain idle things? But do you really think my sharp mind and purpose cannot pass by a cowardly mortal, nor catch him out? Will you indeed justify yourself, judging against me?

[9] Is your arm indeed, like God's, stretched out great? Who is it that also, having brandished about a fiery thunderbolt, and thundered terribly from the sky, like that one, with a loud-roaring voice? and having brandished lightning together with your hand?

[10] But come now, if you can match my strength, then shine, clothed in divine might of splendor, gleaming with beauty and graces and flashes, smiling with grim countenances, and cast glory about you, and clothe yourself with wondrous light upon your face.

[11] Scatter your wrath, your sharp anger, your indignation, and your ruin over all the earth; wherever you saw proud men, cast them down, and there especially direct your avenging eye;

[12] Strike them, looking askance, so that each falls to the ground, men overweening and tongueless, whoever they are; From their seats drag down the wicked, so that they too, prone in the dust, may bite the earth with their teeth.

[13] Trample with your heel upon their breasts, and beneath their feet hide them together in the dust, the wicked tribes of mortals who overflow with pride; Bind them head-down, and let darkness cover their eyes.

[14] Meanwhile I will gladly yield, nor will I refuse, since your right hand has granted you a mightier boast.

[15] But now behold the monstrous elephant, mighty-limbed; truly it was fashioned a great marvel, and it is not like a mountain-dwelling beast, but like a wooded mountain-height of lofty peaks, or even a shadowy cloud. Him too he made along with you, so that he might eat the fruit of the field. For he is not a robber among the beasts, nor any devourer, though he be such and so great in body, but ever he grazes in the green and rich pastures, like a herd ox in an asphodel meadow.

[16] Irresistible strength and might attend his flanks; in his lowest belly and navel there is power.

[17] Its tail is indeed like a cedar, and he whirled it about very swiftly with ease; His testicles are bound with well-woven joints, and they are drawn tight with sinews and twisted cords and fibres.

[18] His skin resembles bronze, and his body gleaming iron; his ribs and limbs are fitted with stout bones, as with bronze bolts and iron bars.

[19] And among the works of God he boasts that he is greatly pre-eminent, and among the wild beasts he is by far the mightiest; He who indeed fashioned him armed him, as it were with a sword, with a great snout, both twisted and crooked; They used to call it a proboscis.

[20] But he is not flesh-eating, nor wild, nor blood-stained; but the mountains have abundantly given him fodder, where all the beasts leap together facing him, and no one is afraid of him nor fears him, when he sees an elephant.

[21] Trees give him cover with their high foliage, a shady forest; there the reeds and the marsh lie hidden in a dense thicket, and in the watery meadow of a great marsh.

[22] Beside the roaring river, around the rustling reed-bed, there deep-shaded tall trees tend him, poplars and elms and willows that lose their fruit, which grow abundantly around the fair streams of the river.

[23] Often a river has drunk it down, gulping with insatiable [throat], and has ravaged the stream — the sheer torrents of the Jordan — he boasts that he will easily, very easily, gulp them with his sturdy jaws.

[24] Who could subdue this one with well-woven nets, and capture him openly, and pierce through his nostril with a hook? But I will tell you another wild wonder, a sacred [creature] of fishes, a mighty sea-monster of the deep, a great marvel of the sea; (For not only the land breeds monsters, but the sea too)

Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 40.1 focus

Sic fatur apertè ſacra vis Immortalis,

Necdum dictis deſtitit, rurſus autem is ſermonem dixit,

Iterúm q; que reſpondit Jobo, objurgáns q; que eum allocutus eſt,

Ecquis audeat cum Deo certare cominus,

Conſiliúm q; que ei ſuggerere, prudentiám q; que mentis ?

Tripliciter quadruplicitér q; que luet, qui ipſum redarguere

Auſit : difficilis enim Cœlicola eſt cui reſiſtatur :

Infelicium verò filii meo robori occurrunt.

Sic ait : exhorruit autem patiens divinus Jobus,

Diu autem tacitus ſtetit, timor verò eum gravis apprehendit.

Tandem autem eum allocut ⁹ us eſt, pium autem dixit ſermonem;

Heu me miſerum, & viliſſimum viventium !

An adverſus Immortalem os ſtolidum ipſe aperiam ?

Non licet, ne q; que decet tibi, Pater, contradicere :

Idcirco ego volo os manu opprimere.

Sanè ſemel dixi, & ſecundò iterum locutus ſum :

At mihi non-ampliùs animus in pectoribus auſus eſt

Ex-adverſo fari tertiò rurſus, ſed me jubet

In ſilentio quietè ſedere; quandoquidem longè meliùs ità eſt.

Illi autem viciſſim reſpondit Deus ſolitâ voce

Turbine de medio, tremuit autem cœlum amplum ſub ipſo,

Movit autem ſe in ſolio, concuſſítque magnum polum:

O timide, vir eſto, zonam circunjice lumbis,

Conſide, neque prorſus in mente timeas tantopere,

Dic mihi interroganti vera, neque occultes.

Miſer, túne mea irrita judicia reddes?

Sed nullo-modo fas-eſt meam mentem nec cogitationem

Aut prætergredi miſerum mortalem, aut fruſtrari.

Vel num juſtificabis teipſum me condemnans?

Nunquid tibj, tanquā tanquam Deo,magnum extenditur brachium,

Quod & vibrans projicit flammeum fulmen?

Horrendùm autem tonuiſti ab æthere, velut ille,

Voce grandiſonâ? fulgetrúm q; que ſimul manu vibrâſti?

Quin agè nunc, ſi mecum potes viribus æquiparari,

Fulge per ſplendorem impetuoſo indutus robore,

Pulchritudine & gratiis coruſcans, & nitore,

Subridens terribili vultu, circùm autem gloriâ

Amictus ſis, divinǽque indue lucem faciei:

Irámque, acrémque furorem, Nemeſínque, & Aten

Sparge totam in terram; quáque vides viros ſuperbos,

Præcipita, & ibi maximè tuum vindicem oculum extende:

Percute autem torvè intuens,ut in terram cadant ſinguli,

Viros ſuperbos & arrogantes, quicun q; que ſint;

De ſedibus deturba improbos, ut illi

Proni in pulveribus mordicus prehendant terram.

Pedem in pectus imprime, ſúbque pedibus pulvere

Abſconde ſimul malas gentes hominum ſuperbientium

Ligans capite, eos autem tenebræ oculos operiant.

Tum verò ego lubens concedam, neque inficiabor,

Quòd tua dextera tibi ſummam gloriam præbuit.

At ecce nunc elephantem ingentem, immania-membra-habentem;

Certè admodum monſtrum eſt ingens,ne q; que ſimilis

Belluæ montanæ, ſed cacumini ſylvoſo

Excelſorum montium, aut etiam nubi opacæ.

Quem unà tecum feci, ut terræ fructum comederet.

Neque enim eſt rapax inter feras, neque prædator,

Talis licèt & tantus ſit corpore, ſed ſemper

Paſcitur in viridibus & aſperis ſaltibus,

Sicut bos armentalis in herboſo prato.

Immenſa ejus lumbis vis & fortitudo adeſt,

Imo in ventre & umbilico eſt robur.

Cauda ei tanqu ā am cedrus,illam verò quàm celerrimè movit,

Teſticuli juncturis benè-complicatis ligati ſunt,

Nervíſ q; que contortis & fibris revincti.

Æri quidem carne ſimilis eſt, corpore autem fulgenti ferro,

Artus & membra firmis oſſibus compacta ſunt,

Veluti clavis æneis, ferreíſque vectibus.

Inter opera Dei admodum præcipuus gloriatur eſſe,

Feráſque inter agreſtes longè præſtantiſſimus: qui olim eum

Formavit, tanquam enſe, magno armavit naſo,

Verſatili, curvóque, proboſcidem eum vocant.

At non crudis-veſcens, ne q; que ſævus, ne q; que ſanguinolentus eſt,

Montes autem ei herbam abunde præbent, ubi etiam feræ

Omnes ſimul ludunt oppoſitæ, nec ulla earum

Pavet, aut timet, cùm viderit elephantem.

Inter-arbores excelſas tegmen ei eſt umbroſa ſylva,

Inter-arundines & paludem jacet denſo in latibulo

Occultè, & in humido-loco paludis magnæ:

Ad fluvium ſtrepentem, circa flexile arundinetum,

Ibi illum ambiunt umbroſæ arbores proceræ,

Alníque ulmíque & ſalices frugiperdæ,

Quæ circa pulchra fluenta fluvii affatim naſcuntur.

Sæpe epotavit fluvios ſine-reſpiratione ſorbens,

Et fluentum evacuavit, Jordanis alta fluenta

Profitetur ſe facile admodum ſtrenuis faucibus hauſturum.

Hunc quis retibus bene-textis domet,

Vivúmque-capiat apertè, penitúſque naſum perforet?

A Liud verò tibi dicam monſtrum ingens,egregium piſc ē em,

Immanem marinum cetum,magnum miraculum maris.

( Non enim terra ſolùm monſtra nutrit, ſed mare )

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1. U+05D0A

3. B

4. §C

5. U+05D0ΑC

7. B

Septuaginta Job 40

ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.

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